Spanish histologist who was born in Petilla de Aragón, and graduated from the University of Saragoza, noted for his pioneering studies on the fine structure of the nervous system. He taught at universities in Valencia, Barcelona, and Madrid. He discovered the controlling mechanisms of morphology (1889) and connective processes of nerve cells in the spinal cord..
Over the next two years he demonstrated the basic changes in neurons during the functioning of the nervous system. He was also the first to isolate brain nerve cells, the so-called Cajal cells. For this work he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906) with the Italian cytologist Camillo Golgi. He died in Madrid, the city where he had founded the Instituto Cajal (1922), dedicated to research on neurohistology.
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